Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:15:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jason Halbert <res02jw5@gte.net> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Rich Wales <richw@webcom.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) Message-ID: <20010122101524.I93049@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <KAECKEJJOLGHAFGGNIKMAELICAAA.res02jw5@gte.net>; from res02jw5@gte.net on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:36:52PM -0000 References: <200101211447.f0LElEk04073@mobile.wemm.org> <KAECKEJJOLGHAFGGNIKMAELICAAA.res02jw5@gte.net>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Sunday, 21 January 2001 at 15:36:52 -0000, Jason Halbert wrote: > (missing attribution to Peter Wemm) >> Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:26:50AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>>> [redirected to -chat] >>>> >>>> On 19-Jan-01 Rich Wales wrote: >>>>> The picture resolution is 352x240 pixels (NTSC) -- roughly VHS >>>>> quality. >>>> >>>> If a VCD is VHS quality either NTSC is much worse than PAL or you >>>> need a new VCR. >>> >>> The former :-) >> >> It was a pretty rude shock to discover how bad NTSC VHS was when I >> got here in the US. At first I thought the machine was broken, but >> alas, it was not to be. :-( What is really sad is when PAL tapes >> still display better after having the video signal converted to >> NTSC by a pretty marginal converted... I wish I had a >> multi-standard TV now. :-( > > Err.. In what way is PAL better then NTSC? NTSC may have about 100 > lines less to scan, but it refreshes 10Hz faster then PAL. 5 Hz. 30 Hz vs. 25 Hz. > I used to work in a facility that had a lot of PAL dubbing... if I > watched the PAL monitors for too long I would get a headache. You > can actually watch PAL flicker. > > I must still be missing something even after working in Television. It's a thing called "resolution". Is 800x600 better than 640x480? Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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